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The Social Democratic Party of Croatia has been politically shaping itself at the beginning of the 1990s, in the specific historical moment characterized by a disappearance of traditional social democracy and open acceptance of the neoliberal agenda. During its second governing mandate (...)

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress.
If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this (...)

One day after the “agreement” between the two parties of the CDU-CSU union the media speculated on the question: “Who has won?” Of course, the answer was given according to the preferences of the media but the general tenor was: neither of the two. An opinion poll of the Forsa institute claimed: “29 per cent of the interviewees think that Merkel’s concept has prevailed; 25 per cent think that Seehofer has succeeded; 40 per cent cannot say who is victorious.”The right to asylum

Austerity experiments in Greece set the stage for a radical restructuring of Europe by elites.
By now, the story of Syriza’s capitulation to the European creditor institutions is well-known.
Syriza came to power in January 2015 with a mandate to resist the imposition of austerity. Instead, (...)

The process of European unification is undergoing a deep crisis, certainly the deepest since it started at the beginning of the 1950s. In less than a year, the EU faced two major tests—first the Greek quarrel, then the refugee crisis — that revealed its true face: a mixture of impotence, (...)

I have added the following postcript to my April 15 article on the death of Margaret Thatcher .
Roger Annis From the letters page of The Guardian, April 15, 2013:
... There has been a great deal of ink spilt since the demise of Thatcher, but with one or two notable exceptions very little has (...)

April 15, 2013-The death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on April 8 has renewed an intense political debate in Britain and internationally over her legacy. For her ruling class sycophants, Thatcher was a heroine, “one of the greatest” prime ministers Britain ever had. While she is (...)

In her speech in the House of Commons, Glenda Jackson caused uproar on the Conservative benches for her forthright attacks on Thatcher and her legacy. This is what she said.
It is hardly a surprise that Baroness Thatcher was careless over the soup being poured over Lord Howe, given that she (...)

In death Margaret Thatcher has caused further division. The left has failed to convince enough people of the alternatives.
In 1966, a little more than a year after Martin Luther King won the Nobel peace prize, only 33% of Americans had a favourable view of him, as opposed to 63% who viewed him (...)

April 9, 2013–As I wrote in my October 2012 article on the state of politics in Britain , one of the most striking features of life in Britain today is the degree to which the policies of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher failed to improve the lives of working class people and degraded the (...)

Alex Nunns offers an antidote to the media fawning over Thatcher – and argues her biggest victory was getting her opponents to buy into her mythology. When a political leader dies it becomes compulsory to lie about their record. While much of Britain openly rejoiced at the death of Margaret (...)

Monet and Schuman might have deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, the European Union does not.
It’s easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to ridicule the awarding of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to Barrack ‘Drone Wars’ Obama. But let’s give the Nobel Committee the benefit of the doubt and accept that they (...)

We are punishing the innocent, the people who are supposed to pay through austerity, and we are rewarding the guilty because the banks are continuing to receive huge privileges and subsidies from our governments. What is the continuity you see between the moment of Maastricht through the Lisbon (...)

‘There Is No Alternative’ (TINA) was one of Margaret Thatcher’s infamous slogans. For Thatcher this was a normative slogan, a part of her ideological struggle. She wanted to convince people that her neoliberal policies were the only possible policies, other alternatives had been left on the scrap (...)

Hopes that the resolutions of European heads of state would stabilize the financial markets and solve the Eurozone debt crisis, once and for all, have risen with each new summit over the past two years, only to be dashed again once the fine print comes to light. Would investors really join in (...)

This report was presented at an open session of the International Organising Committee (IOC) of the Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) meeting held in Paris October 28 before the alternative summit to the G20 in Nice (south of France). The notes distributed in English at the time of the meeting (...)

“THE CRISIS OF 2007-2009, coming from the U.S. core of the globalized system, the crisis that threatens the weak links of the euro, and the third crisis that started to affect Eastern Europe in 2009 have a major common point. Whether we are talking about the United States, Greece or the Baltic (...)

European construction aroused popular aspirations, which were radically opposed to what is actually happening: aspirations for a continent that would resist antisocial policies while being open to the world, according to a democratic, social, ecological and solidarity-based logic… This was in (...)

Voters in the Republic of Ireland drove a stake through the heart of the Lisbon Treaty, a rewrite of the European Union Constitution, in a Referendum which took place on June 12 – The result was announced on Friday June 13 2008.
No campaigners made this a memorably unlucky date for EU boss Jose (...)

It started out as a good day for justice and rapidly became a good day for democracy too.
Just as the members of the US Supreme Court were restoring the human rights of prisoners of the United States held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Irish people were voting to deliver a resounding rejection (...)